The term ''clickable'' refers to files which are double-clicked to launch from within the Finder. That is, navigating to a particular directory and double-clicking a file in the directory to launch it. Mac OS X's main form of clickable application is a `.app` bundle which is essentially a specially-structured directory that is treated as a single entity. [MacOS X] also recognizes shell scripts and binaries as executable, but it will launch a Terminal window in order to execute those types of program if they are double-clicked from the Finder. The true way to get an application which is clickable on OS X is to create a `.app` bundle. There are several ways to do this. ---- [Roy Keene]'s "... '''starkit2exe''' [http://www.rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/starkit2exe.sh.htm] ... creates a 'clickable' application if the target is Mac OS X." The [ActiveState] [Tcl Dev Kit] will create a "clickable" OS X .app application using [TclApp]. A guide to creating Mac application packages with Tclkits Starkits is available at http://anoved.net/2007/12/minimal-tcltk-mac-application-packages/ and a tool that can help do the same automatically is available at http://anoved.net/2007/12/minimal-tcltk-mac-application-packages/ (neither resource is necessarily up to date). See also http://www.codebykevin.com/opensource/tutorial.html, which describes "How to Build Tcl/Tk Application Bundles: the Mac Way." Platypus (http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus) is a general-purpose tool for turning just about anything into a .app bundle. Pretty easy to use and pretty handy. --- [JOB] I also wanted to have a simple solution to create this magic .app fully automated. Could manage it just with one more rule in the Makefile as discussed here: [cross-building a starkit] --- ---- http://tkchat.tclers.tk provides an example of a `.dmg` containing a `.app` which in turn contains [tclkit] (the latest decarbonised version) and '''[tkchat].kit'''. It also illustrates how to make the perfect installation scheme work: just drag the application to the link to the Applications folder. ---- Related material appears as "[More MacOS X techniques]". ---- !!!!!! %| [Category Dev. Tools] | [Category Mac] |% !!!!!!